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Robots, robots, robots… and AI – How BMW is automating its supply chain functions
Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled ‘1.8k suppliers, 31m parts, 10k vehicles – How BMW is making sense of its supply chain’. Click here to go …
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1.8k suppliers, 31m parts, 10k vehicles – How BMW is making sense of its supply chain
BMW Group has a global roster of about 1,800 suppliers, scattered at 4,000 points across the globe. Together, they deliver 31 million parts to 30 BMW production sites, worldwide, every …
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State of things | Smart manufacturing (part 4): Buying digital change
This article is the fourth instalment in a series taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018. The …
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State of things | Smart manufacturing (part 3): Use case modelling
This article is the third instalment in a series taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018. The …
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State of things | Smart manufacturing (part 2): An alternative truth
This article is the second instalment in a series taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018. The …
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State of things | Smart manufacturing (part 1): The hype and the glory
This article is taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018. The report tells the story of smart …
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Talking heads: What to consider when matching industrial IoT use cases to edge-cloud setups
Jean-Philippe Provencher, vice president, manufacturing strategy and solutions, PTC “The governing factors are the facilities, the cost of downtime, and speed of product development. “Cloud computing could hit a snag …
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Beyond bandwidth and latency: Reasons to move to the edge, and the rule of three
It’s not just bandwidth and latency that are dictating the migration of industrial machine intelligence to the edge of the network. There are benefits in terms of compliance, security, and …
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Chain of custody: Supply chains, blockchains – and the Spice Girls
The Spice Girls have been back again (at writing) nwith a reunion tour and a souvenir t-shirt. It is a nostalgia trip, for sure – in terms of the songbook …
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From power grids to oil rigs: IIoT at the cutting edge – four AWS use cases
In simple terms, the prevailing wisdom is the more data, the better. More data equals better decisions, which equals better products, and more users. That is the theory, anyway. The …
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“Put IT and OT in the same room, have them talk about ‘real time’” – and other Airbus rules for Industry 4.0
For European aerospace company Airbus, the introduction of new digital tools into factory processes must be assured. New technology has to work straight away, and intuitively. It should also deliver …
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“Yes, the driller has to drill, but it also has to compute” – and other Airbus rules for Industry 4.0
Note, this was originally intended to be a two part series covering Airbus’ four essential lessons for Industry 4.0. Here, we are inserting another entry and another lesson, of sorts, …
